JULIUS CAESAR World Landmark Series Author:John Gunther This book for young adults from the World Landmark Books Series has no back cover text, but the first chapter begins as follows: — "When Gaius Julius Caesar was still in his twenties he took a trip to Rhodes, an island in the Aegean Sea. This was long before he was well known outside his own circle. Nobody knew that this young man was going to b... more »ecome master of the world some day. He was a youth of good family, something of a spendthrift and gambler, eater to get ahead in politics and war, but still untried. Few Romans had ever heard of him..."« less